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Affirmative Action - 1,744 words
... from the same communities as their students
they will be aware of the problems facing their
community and that of their students, that way
they can better help theses kids, than someone
that lives outside of the children The community
and has no idea of the problems they are facing.
In 1984 their were seventy-one women professors
out of 1,112 (6.4 per cent). They were not
however, evenly distributed across subjects and
departments, but were concentrated in
conventionally female areas. Three out of five
professors of library science are women, and five
out of seven professors or nursing. Women are also
notable represented in education ( seven out of
forty-nine professors) and social work ...
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American Studies - 1,845 words
American Studies Understanding America November
11, 1999 Midterm Examination American Studies can
be a variety of different meanings to a lot of
different authors. They are all pretty much on the
same note, but with different alterations. For me,
I believe that it is to make connections between
the past and how it will impact the future.
American Studies has transformed overtime. Each
individual has their own beliefs and feelings of
what it really means. In Gene Wise's article he
states how he is interested in how the field of
American Studies has transformed overtime, what
American Studies methodology is, and the types of
questions that American Studies practitioners ask.
I believe that the ...
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Awakening By Kate Chopin - 1,585 words
Awakening By Kate Chopin "Every step which she
took toward relieving herself from obligations
added to her strength and expansion as an
individual" (93) The Awakening by Kate Chopin
introduces the reader to the life of Edna
Pontellier, a woman with an independent nature,
searching for her true identity in a patriarchal
society that expects women to be nothing more than
devoted wives and nurturing mothers. In this paper
I will describe Ednas journey of self-discovery
and explain why her struggle for independence is
no easy task. I will also discuss the relationship
Edna has with two other main women characters and
describe how these women conform or rebel against
a society with many social co ...
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Cronon On Education - 390 words
Cronon On Education Cronon on Education Having
read Victor's story not realizing until the very
end that Victor in the story was the author made
it much more confusing! I realize that the issue
here is about racial and social discrimination as
well as about education and following your own
ideals instead of the rest of society's. He
displays this through the various characters and
stories throughout the essay as well as his own
personal accounts. The reason and logic behind his
paper is shown through the different examples,
such as in the classroom with the different
students of different gender, race, social
standing, etc. I find his ideas much harder to
follow as they are much less clear-c ...
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Double Standard Of Masculinity In Gender Role Socialization - 1,206 words
... are seen by the student?body of the school.
Pep rallies are thrown to support the 'athletes',
the 'stars' of the school. Girls swoon over the
masculine 'hunks'. As young boys move into
adulthood they are told to "be men" when
confronted with a formidable challenge or when
they face some sort of agony. The implication in
this phrase is that men should be immune to pain
and not show any emotion. To show emotion would be
a sign of weakness and society would view them as
abnormal or inferior (Pollack 1995). I have
covered the socialization process showing how
physical prowess is objectified and legitimated in
males. This process, however, does not end in high
school. As men move into their ...
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Employee Selection - 1,219 words
Employee Selection Selection is increasingly
important as more attention is paid to the costs
of poor selection, and as reduced job mobility
means that selection errors are likely to stay
with the organization for longer. (Torrington and
Hall, 1998, p221) The selection decision has
always been important as the way for a company to
obtain the human resource that is appropriate for
the job and company. There are many methods for
selection such as: testing, advertising,
completing application form, screening,
corresponding with the prospective employee. Among
these, the two principal selection methods, which
most are used, are application forms, and
interviews. In fact, it is not just one selec ...
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Evolution Of Rap Music - 2,575 words
... Signed: THE EVOLUTION OF RAP MUSIC Rap is a
form of urban music, which emerged from the
hip-hop movement of the South Bronx, New York, in
the early 1970s. The hip-hop culture was comprised
of the popular street activities of
African-American youth during the 1970s such as:
styles of language, street-slang colloquialisms,
graffiti, break dancing, music and their colourful
attitude and fashion. Rap music is therefor a
subculture to the hip-hop movement, or what many
describe as the soundtrack to accompany the other
facets of the hip-hop culture . This means that
any changes that take place within the hip-hop
culture itself will be reflected in the subculture
of rap music. Since the 1970s ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes - 675 words
Fried Green Tomatoes Film Analysis Fried Green
Tomatoes For this paper I have chosen to review
the film Fried Green Tomatoes. It is a tale of a
small old town, its more popular residents, and a
murder mystery told in retrospect by the main
character Idggy. I was able to identify several
social structures within the small town during the
movies flashbacks as well as its modern day
narrative setting. There were no government
officials present, but a sheriff kept order
amongst citizens. That same sheriff, however,
partied with the same people that he enforced the
law upon. It was the typical small town
environment where everyone knew each other and was
generally friendly towards one another. Th ...
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Gender In The Military: Critique - 934 words
Gender in the Military: Critique Gina Carrenos
essay "Gender in the Military" explicates the
issues that women face in the military. Carreno
addresses the discriminations and the abuse that
women are subjected to in the military. Although
some may argue that there are several weak points,
Gina Carreno has a way of bringing out the
stronger aspects of her argument, for example; the
way she backs up her topics by citing them, and
she also leaves room for her audience to form
their own opinions. In summary, "Gender in the
Military," explains how gender, race, and sexual
orientation are handled in the U.S. military. The
article is more female based, for example; "women
are often victims of sexua ...
Related: critique, gender, gender race, sexual abuse, african american

Juvenile Delinquency And Society - 1,968 words
Juvenile Delinquency And Society Juvenile
Delinquency and Society Throughout time, crime has
played in an important part in the function of
society. We see crime in the news everyday, in our
communities, in our schools, and in some cases,
even in our immediate families. Which reaches out
and takes a stranglehold on the human-interest
angle of the general public's mind, and makes us
become enveloped in the thought processes of the
modern criminal. Along these lines, the
fascination with delinquent behavior and the mind
of the delinquent has prompted the development of
numerous theories, and the continuous, yet
rigorous, study of youth behavior. But only
recently has the concept of juvenile de ...
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Kate Chopins Controversial Views - 1,779 words
Kate Chopin's Controversial Views "Too strong a
drink for moral babies, and should be labeled
`poison'." was the how the Republic described Kate
Chopin's most famous novel The Awakening
(Seyersted 174). This was the not only the view of
one magazine, but it summarized the feelings of
society as a whole. Chopin woke up people to the
feelings and minds of women. Even though her ideas
were controversial at first, slowly over the
decades people began to accept them. Kate
O'Flaherty Chopin was raised in St. Louis in the
1850's and 1860's. Chopin had a close relationship
with her French grandmother which lead to her
appreciation of French writers. When she was only
five Chopin's father, Thomas O'F ...
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Operation Systems - 1,933 words
Operation Systems Do you see fragmentation in the
Linux distribution market to be a good, bad, or
neutral thing? Do you think that themedia frenzy
over Linux tends to harm other worthy OS projects
like the BSDs and BeOS? Do you think that big
business's entry into the Linux market will change
the gift-culture aspects of Linux, or will the
businesses in question adapt to Linux? Or both?
What do you think is in store for humanity in
terms of relations between governments,
businesses, and individuals? Do you think that we
should actively pursue colonization of other
planets in our star system at this time, and if
not, then when? Abe answers: You'll feel better if
you take the long view. Your qu ...
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Othello Play - 1,208 words
Othello Play "If Othello didnt begin as a play
about race, history has made it one." The Venetian
society that Othello is set in is representative
of the writers context. The attitudes and values
that Shakespeare reveals through the text are
those same attitudes and values of Elizabethan
society in England in the sixteenth-century.
Although Othello is set in Venice and Cyprus, the
attitudes and values shared in the text are
probably reflective of the attitudes and values of
Shakespeare's own society. It is difficult to
assess the attitudes and values of people in
sixteenth-century Britain to the relatively few
blacks living amongst them. We are given an
insight into those attitudes and value ...
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Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - 1,520 words
... nosa can be found on nearly every shower
curtain and drain pipe around the world. Functions
of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that were previously
unknown have been identified, suggesting new
avenues for drugs to treat serious lung infections
caused by this bacterium. Researchers now have a
better understanding of why Pseudomonas aeruginosa
is naturally resistant to most antibiotics. As a
result, they have new ideas on how to identify
antibiotics that might circumvent some of the
bacterium's intrinsic drug resistance mechanisms.
The bacterium was sequenced based on one
particular organism, or isolate, that is the
standard in laboratories. Variations are now being
examined that occur when the org ...
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Race, Class And Gender - 1,052 words
Race, Class And Gender Race, Class and Gender
issues are commonly brought up. Throughout history
many groups have been stigmatized not just for
their race, but for their sex, and class as well.
People of lower class incomes get slandered for
where they live and for not having the economical
means to purchase most common goods. Women have
been considered the weaker sex for centuries, and
currently, some of the old fashioned and ignorant
theories on women being subordinate to men
prevail. In the article " Rethinking Women's
Biology" the author position appeared to be that
society dictates what a woman means and teaches it
from childhood. The old concept of blue for a boy
and pink for a girl st ...
Related: gender, gender issues, gender race, lower class, men and women

Same Sex Harassment - 1,523 words
Same Sex Harassment Joseph Oncale was employed
from August to November of 1991 by Sundowner
Offshore Services, Inc., as a roustabout on a
sea-based oil rig for $7 an hour. He had worked on
offshore rigs before (and does today), but says
he's never encountered such abusive treatment as
when he signed on with Sundowner. Oncale claims
that while on the job he was sexually harassed by
three male Sundowner employees: John Lyons, his
supervisor; and Danny Pippen and Brandon Johnson,
two co-workers. Early during Oncale's employment,
Lyons, Pippen, and Brandon began threatening
Oncale with rape. Oncale endured months of
constant harassment and verbal threats while on
the job. On October 25, 1991, th ...
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Schizophrenia - 492 words
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe mental
illness characterized by a variety of symptoms,
including loss of contact with reality, bizarre
behavior, disorganized thinking and speech,
decreased emotional expressiveness, and social
withdrawal. Usually only some of these symptoms
occur in any one person. The term schizophrenia
comes from Greek words meaning "split mind."
However, contrary to common belief, schizophrenia
does not refer to a person with a split
personality or multiple personality.To observers,
schizophrenia may seem like madness or insanity.
Perhaps more than any other mental illness,
schizophrenia has a debilitating effect on the
lives of the people who suffer from it. A per ...
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School Violence - 1,530 words
School Violence Violence in society is more
prevalent today than ever before. Media and
entertainment have opened up violent images for
children to see. Availability of weapons to school
age children seems incredulous. News stories of
elementary school children bringing guns to school
and killing classmates are sickening yet true.
What is happening to our country? What is
happening to our schools? It is no secret that
academic performance has declined over the last
thirty or forty years. Todays students are not as
proficient in the three Rs as are parents or
grandparents was. Cultural illiteracy, is rising.
Cultural illiteracy indicates a failure to possess
the basic information needed to th ...
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Sexual Harassment Case - 1,466 words
Sexual Harassment Case Susan Parker vs. Randy
Louvenberger The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission's (EEOC) sexual harassment guidelines
and the Civil Act of 1964, indicate that Susan
Parker was indeed sexually harassed throughout her
employment at Plastech Industries. The EEOC has
created a set of guidelines that determine
liability. These EEOC guidelines say that "A key
factor in determining liability is whether the
employer has an effective internal grievance
procedure that allows employees to bypass
immediate supervisors (who are often the
offenders)" (Making the Sale p.46). According to
the EEOC and section 703 of Title VII in the Civil
Act of 1964, sexual harassment is: " ... sex d ...
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The Graduated Driver License - 650 words
The Graduated Driver License The Graduated Driver
License (GDL) is a law that is aimed to reduce
teen driving deaths. This law goes into affect
July 1, 2001. The new driving law is made up of 3
main restrictions. These parts are: 1. For the
first six months after issuance of an Intermediate
Drivers License, the holder of the license may not
have any passengers in the car under the age of
20, except for members of the holders immediate
family. 2. After the first six months, the holder
may not have more than three passengers in the car
under the age of 20, except for members of the
holders immediate family. 3. The holder of an
Intermediate Drivers License may not operate a
vehicle between the ...
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